SHOOT ANYBODY WHO BLOCK MY CONVOY ,GOVERNOR UMAHI ORDERS SECURITY OFFICIALS

The Governor alleged that in the course of the blockage one of his security aides lost his military rifle in the incident, and on Saturday night while playing host to some guests at the State Executive Chambers in Abakaliki, expressed his displeasure over the ugly development.

Penpushing further reports that, Umahi stated that, the act was a criminal breach of the law, adding, “yesterday night, I was coming back by 12 midnight. Of course, I had to stop over at the College to inspect projects, but when we got to Onicha, they blocked the road’.

“Even with the litany of army and the police and everything, they did not even want to open the road. Then I said they should arrest all of them, but most of them ran away. I think they even took a gun of an army officer,” he said.

The Governor declared  with assurance  that  those still on the run  would still be arrested and imprisoned, adding, “so the Chairman of the Local Government, the House of Assembly members and coordinators, they are working very hard and the SSA on Security, they are all there to sort it out;.

“But I say, all of them will go to prison. So they have to identify them, bring them here and we will prosecute them to show an example,” he said, and further emphasized that, “next time the ADC should order for a shoot. It is very illegal to block the governor. And if anybody is killed in the course of that, it is allowed in the law. And it is not me that is the problem, it is the common man, nobody should be oppressed…,”

Penpushing also reports that, Umahi, announced a ban on wake-keep extending beyond 10 p.m. in the State, declaring that, “and I want it to be announced that henceforth, no wake-keep should go past10 p.m. If you must pass 10 p.m., take written permission from the chairman of the local government, and both the chairman and the person that requested will be held responsible if any problem occurs’

“This should be widely circulated and properly announced. My problem is not that they blocked the governor, but my worry is supposing that it was a smaller person that was passing, who had no army and police, they would have robbed the person.”